Khemlani says that he has signed a first-look production deal with CBS and Simon & Schuster to develop documentaries, books and scripted series that he says will “allow me to write, report and develop stories that I’ve long wanted to pursue.”
TheWrap reports CBS Entertainment President/CEO George Cheeks said in a separate memo that more information about the new leadership and structure for CBS News would be shared in the coming weeks.
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“We maintained the #1 position of our iconic weekend programs, successfully developed and launched business plans to grow digital revenue that will sustain CBS News for the next generation, and elevated and promoted so many of the people who work here day after day to deliver on our journalistic mission,” Khemlani said in his memo.
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| Video shows Mike Calta grabbing woman's cellphone |
The video, posted on Blaze Media, shows the un-identified woman with papers in one hand and a cell phone in the other hand. The woman is allegedly recording video of Calta with her cell phone at a gun shop in Sarasota on July 17.
Calta is heard saying on video, "How pathetic is your life that you're here fighting this fight?"
The woman responds, "How pathetic is your life?"
Calta instructs the woman to turn around and look at the people behind her.
Calta grabs the phone from the woman.
The woman tells the radio host, "You don't have permission to take that from me. That's my property."
The woman attempts to retrieve her phone back, but Calta holds it out of her reach.
Calta threatens, "Back away from me or I'll kick the s**t outta you."
"B*tch, you don't back away from me these guys are gonna throw you the f*** out," Calta said, referencing security guards nearby.
The woman lunges for her phone; then a furious Calta violently shoves the woman in her face. She is pushed away and a security guard physically removes her from the area.
Calta demands, "Get the f*** off me, you dirty c***."
Tampa Dj MrMikeCalta with ties to @HowardStern and associated with @apolloglobal and @CoxMediaGrp facing potential charges for allegedly assaulting a woman at station function. Video seems to show him taking a woman’s phone, calling her a c*nt, hitting her, and deleting content. pic.twitter.com/niPxe5Ycna
— Current Revolt (Tony O.) (@CurrentRevolt) August 7, 2023
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| Hunter Biden, David Weiss (top right), Merrick Garland |
Near the top of the hour, host Chuck Todd introduced the topic following Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing special counsel David Weiss to further investigate Hunter's activities. Todd contrasted the news with the multiple indictments against former President Donald Trump but acknowledged that the investigation into Hunter "has raised questions" for voters.
"President Biden’s handling of the case has raised questions at a time when voters already have doubts about his age and political standing. Biden brought his son to a state dinner just two days after the plea deal that has since collapsed was announced, and he has repeatedly defended him, denying wrongdoing altogether even though Hunter Biden himself has pled guilty," Todd said.
Reuters reports the labels' lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan said the Archive's "Great 78 Project" functions as an "illegal record store" for songs by musicians including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.
They named 2,749 sound-recording copyrights that the Archive allegedly infringed. The labels said their damages in the case could be as high as $412 million.
LIVE UPDATES: Lahaina fire now the deadliest in modern U.S. history
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 13, 2023
• At least 93 people are dead and at least 2 have been identified
• An estimated 2,207 structures were destroyed or damaged in Lahaina, according to damage assessments https://t.co/WUFh8LTcbD
Firefighters Battle Flare-Ups: Days after the inferno destroyed much of the historic resort town of Lahaina on Tuesday and Wednesday, crews of firefighters were still battling flare-ups, and cadaver dogs were sifting through the town's charred ruins in search of victims. The death toll made the blaze Hawaii's worst natural disaster, surpassing a tsunami that killed 61 people in 1960, a year after Hawaii became a U.S. state. It was also the largest number of deaths from a U.S. wildfire since 1918, when 453 people died in the Cloquet fire in Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to data from the National Fire Protection Association. Many of the survivors took to Sunday church services, including Akanesi Vaa, 38, who said her family got stuck in traffic while trying to escape the flames.
The fire on the Hawaiian island of Maui spread outside of Lahaina to an area known as Upcountry. Residents there are now dealing with their own losses. pic.twitter.com/wgO4gc6Q7i
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 14, 2023
➤TRUMP TROUBLE IN GEORGIA: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who has been probing the former U.S. president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election result in Georgia for two and a half years, is expected to present the case to a grand jury as soon as the coming week. In preparation, the street in front of the courthouse was closed with armed sheriff’s deputies patrolling the area 24/7. Vehicles from several law enforcement agencies lined side streets, while media vans idled next to stacks of bicycle racks used for crowd control. A criminal case against Trump in Atlanta would be a twist because he doesn’t have an obvious connection to the area the way he does in the other places he’s been indicted. Trump has lived and worked in New York, Washington and Florida, where he’s accused of falsifying business records, conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and absconding with classified documents, respectively.
"I would hate to have Fani Willis after me," one judge told @ABC. https://t.co/Tbi13O6mpp
— ABC News (@ABC) August 14, 2023
➤BIDENS HUNCKER DOWN: For President Joe Biden, the legal troubles of his son appeared to be going away last month when Hunter Biden's attorneys reached terms with prosecutors to resolve tax evasion and gun charges. Then the deal fell apart. Now, with Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing a special counsel Friday to investigate the criminal case, the legal drama over Hunter Biden is poised to hang over the entirety of Joe Biden's 2024 reelection bid. Not only does the special counsel designation of David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware who has overseen the case for five years, signal a wider probe, the Justice Department also said in a motion Friday it expects a trial over the charges already filed against Hunter Biden. The motion all but ensures a circus of television cameras outside a federal courthouse following the president's son just as the 2024 campaign will be in full swing. "This is not good for the president," said Richard Painter, a law professor at University of Minnesota who served as chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush.
The NY Daily News reports national press organizations have condemned the raids on the offices, staff and owners of the Marion County Record, a 154-year-old weekly paper serving Marion, Kan. and its namesake county, home to 12,000 people.
“We are shocked and outraged by this brazen violation of press freedom,” said a statement by Eileen O’Reilly, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, president of the club’s Journalism Institute.
“A law enforcement raid of a newspaper office is deeply upsetting anywhere in the world,” the statement said. “It is especially concerning in the United States, where we have strong and well-established legal protections guaranteeing the freedom of the press.”
Joan Meyer, 98, who co-owned the newspaper with her son Eric, “collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home,” after becoming “stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal raids,” the newspaper reported.
The Record added that Meyer was “otherwise in good health for her age.”
The L-A Times reports the ruling revealed that special counsel Jack Smith’s office, which obtained the warrant as part of its investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, had asked a judge to bar X from revealing the warrant’s existence. Prosecutors argued that alerting the former president “would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation” by giving him an opportunity to destroy evidence or change his conduct.
In the 3-0 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected X’s objections to the nondisclosure order and upheld the lower court judge’s civil contempt sanction. The opinion notes that X ultimately complied with the warrant.
Judge Florence Pan, who was appointed to the court by President Biden, wrote that prosecutors had offered “unquestionably compelling” reasons to stop X from notifying Trump about the search warrant, and that the government’s interests were “particularly strong” because of the subject of the investigation — efforts to undo “a valid national election.”
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For Universal Newsreels in the 1940s, Herlihy narrated editions describing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Allies' early setbacks against the Axis powers, the turning of the tide of WWII, the death of President Roosevelt, the execution of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the detonation of the first atomic bombs. In the next decade, during the Cold War, he narrated the very first American newsreel on the launch of Sputnik.
➦In 1932...Philips makes 1 millionth radio
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| 'Ma Perkins' Cast |
➦In 1933... Crossley Broadcasting’s WLW in Cincinnati premiered the daytime drama “Ma Perkins.”
Starting December 4, 1933, Ma Perkins was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. Between 1942 and 1949, the show was heard simultaneously on both networks.
The series was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert with scripts by Robert Hardy Andrews, Orvin Tovrov and others. Ma Perkins began August 14, 1933, on WLW in Cincinnati. On December 4 of that year, it graduated to the NBC Red network. On NBC and CBS the series ran for a total of 7,065 episodes.
"America’s mother of the air" was portrayed by actress Virginia Payne, who began the role at the age of 23 and never missed a performance during the program's 27-year run. Kindly, trusting widow Ma Perkins had a big heart and a great love of humanity. She always offered her homespun philosophy to troubled souls in need of advice.
➦In 1942...“The Show Without a Name” hosted by Garry Moore started airing on NBC. It was an effort to crack the morning show dominance of Arthur Godfrey (CBS) and “Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club” (ABC). A prize of $500 was offered to name the show and someone came up with the title, “Everything Goes”.
➦In 1945...radio brought the news of Japan’s surrender ending World War II.